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The Altcoin Thread

Wow nice rack.

Are you actually going to try to run it on a UPS pictured there?

two 280x would be like 400-500watts depending on overclock and fan speed, motherboard another 50

I guess you'll get blink protection

BTW unless you insist on running it on windows you could just use a cheap SD card and bamt instead of that expensive looking SSD you have there
 
i tried the linux route... no love for me there. share rate was crap compared to the windows flavor.

Plus i use netxms to monitor my rigs and auto reboot / switch pools based on information.
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Im pretty sure you will short that UPS once you fire everything up.
 
vibe said:
Wow nice rack.

Are you actually going to try to run it on a UPS pictured there?

two 280x would be like 400-500watts depending on overclock and fan speed, motherboard another 50

I guess you'll get blink protection

BTW unless you insist on running it on windows you could just use a cheap SD card and bamt instead of that expensive looking SSD you have there
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Yeah that UPS is only enough to protect against very brief outages, which is really all I care about TBH.

I am going to run Windows 8.1 just because I have a spare license that was almost free. That SSD is only a $40 SanDisk 32GB unit so it really wasn't that expensive.

And the UPS is line interactive so it will work fine. How long the battery will last, I have no clue. Probably not long. If it doesn't work at all I'll just return it to Best Buy. I had gift cards I was never going to use so I bought it with that. Maybe I'll find a bigger enterprise grade UPS on eBay or something.
 
For 1000+ watts I went with this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006B81D

direct on the outlet with no cord, short wire inside cannot really overheat/overload

the case is sold metal instead of plastic so there is some heat protection

but of course no blink protection, but my rig would auto-restart anyway

the noise filter works, I can now watch OTA tv that is on the same circuit

also replaced the power supply power cord with this because I didn't like how hot the plug was getting

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002UB4Y54

solved the problem
 
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I bought two of those same racks at Office Depot a few days ago. Will be doing my this weekend. :p
 
the racks look metal, or are they plastic?

see metal makes me nervous, very nervous, with 1000 watts flowing through the system...
 
UncleDavid218 said:
And the UPS is line interactive so it will work fine. How long the battery will last, I have no clue.
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Can it turn on just the transformer to handle brownouts like the high end tripp lite ups can?

On one of my ups I can actually tune at what voltage the battery turns on and off, I don't think it is apc though
 
As long as you know those two box fans are adding 100 watts .

But I guess with that many cards so concentrated, not a bad idea

wait are they running push or pull
 
MaxCoin has been the most profitable launch release coin I have ever mined. It was hell trying to get it all figured out, but as of now, I've mined, sold, and received 2.1 BTC in less than 24 hours. My single Titan was responsible for 1.5 BTC as it found 2 blocks by itself, and I was 5 hours later to the CudaMiner game so others really made out well who got in early there. And my AMD cards didn't get up and running until around noon.
 
Lol... I wonder if anyone realizes that ONE POOL has nearly 90% of the network hash rate for SmartCoin...

Guaranteed payout.
 
blade52x said:
MaxCoin has been the most profitable launch release coin I have ever mined. It was hell trying to get it all figured out, but as of now, I've mined, sold, and received 2.1 BTC in less than 24 hours. My single Titan was responsible for 1.5 BTC as it found 2 blocks by itself, and I was 5 hours later to the CudaMiner game so others really made out well who got in early there. And my AMD cards didn't get up and running until around noon.
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Meh. Complete clusterfuck. I had to go to class when people started to figure stuff out, but I only had a CPU to mine so didn't really make out great. Where did you sell?
 
vibe said:
As long as you know those two box fans are adding 100 watts .

But I guess with that many cards so concentrated, not a bad idea

wait are they running push or pull
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100watts is a piss in the bucket for me.Costs me about $0.24/day. Keeps card temps down, and $16 box fans are easier to replace than HSF from an RMA. Gladly pay that.

Plan is to have each shelf hold 12 cards, Gonna have to build a shop out back just to hold this crap in the summer.
 
blade52x said:
MaxCoin has been the most profitable launch release coin I have ever mined. It was hell trying to get it all figured out, but as of now, I've mined, sold, and received 2.1 BTC in less than 24 hours. My single Titan was responsible for 1.5 BTC as it found 2 blocks by itself, and I was 5 hours later to the CudaMiner game so others really made out well who got in early there. And my AMD cards didn't get up and running until around noon.
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That's because of the nature of the coin. It was designed as a CPU-only coin and someone figured out a way to hack it so that Cudaminer could do it. And as we all know, GPU's can do the math much more efficiently. So, of course you are making much more... not by nature that the coin is worth more, but because of... well... to put it bluntly... a hack.
 
Hack or not, is Maxcoin still profitable and worth looking into or not anymore? I was waiting around for the launch and got fed up. Guess I should have persevered...
 
vortec4800 said:
Hack or not, is it still profitable and worth looking into or not anymore? I was waiting around for the launch and got fed up. Guess I should have persevered...
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I'm sure it's still profitable at this point. That will change when everyone jumps on with their cudaminers and mines the shit out of the coin driving the price down. Apparently the devs are working with one (or more) of the pool operators to implement a stratum solution... so I would assume that move would open things up to all GPUs.

On the other hand, at least NVidia cards have become useful for mining at least something now. I'd put my 780's to work, but meh, by the time I figured it out, the whole profitability wave would probably be over... that's the way my luck works.
 
Alright. So how are coin traders able to automate their price changes so fast?
I just watched as a holder of a large amount of one coin, over 1500, basically blocked me from trading a small amount of that coin, about 4.
As I would lower my price to just below his, almost before I could get the change in place, his price would drop to maybe 0.00000001 below my price.
And it managed to do it 3 times before I lowered my price quite a bit. Then my trade went through.
If I didn't know better I would say I was being played. He never intended to sell his coin or much of it, but wanted to drive my price down because he had a buy order in place too.
Anyone else observed this behavior? And would it be worth reporting to the exchange?
This person is most likely not even mining. Just buying and selling and manipulating the markets.
 
Get ready for WDC to go through the roof, I just sold mine. Everytime I sell something it goes through the roof, you can thank me later guys :D:p :(
 
Core32 said:
Alright. So how are coin traders able to automate their price changes so fast?
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Welcome to the world of High-frequency trading. Their methods are no different than those currently employed in the world stock exchanges.
 
xIronCrossx said:
Get ready for WDC to go through the roof, I just sold mine. Everytime I sell something it goes through the roof, you can thank me later guys :D:p :(
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Not waiting until the 20th? Not even for the possibility of a slightly higher payout? Like even a couple bucks? I'm actually thinking of sticking a miner on WDC for the next few days until the 20th just to gamble.
 
Carbon_Rod said:
Not waiting until the 20th? Not even for the possibility of a slightly higher payout? Like even a couple bucks? I'm actually thinking of sticking a miner on WDC for the next few days until the 20th just to gamble.
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Honestly, today I just want BTC. Don't ask me why, but I have days where I just want to have it all in BTC and ready to sell on coinbase if I need to. I have costs covered this month if I were to sell now, but I may mine a bit of WDC again. I only had around 144, so not really that much.
 
UncleDavid218 said:
Well, I started building my mining rig last night. I received my 2 other 280x's this afternoon as well as my riser cards, so I should be pretty much good to go to start mining this weekend. I'm replacing the sweet motherboard mount with something a little more pleasant looking, but otherwise the setup is pretty much complete.

The room that the system is in is at my dad's business in a spare office (which is only used for physical file storage) and it's not heated and currently about 50*F. I will have a fan blowing across the cards from the front to keep air moving, but I think it should stay pretty cool especially because of how cold it is outside (-2*F now). There's a window mount AC unit in the office for summer.

I'm going to move the video card shelf down a couple of rungs.

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Lol, I think I bought the exact same rack today to put my stuff in at home depot. Cept mine is ugly white.

http://imgur.com/qRJLWpV

I just got it up this afternoon before wife and kids came home so it's still a little messy. I have another rig I'll be putting on that second shelf along with a hub (I'm on Wi-Fi now) and a UPS underneath the whole thing.
 
blade52x said:
MaxCoin has been the most profitable launch release coin I have ever mined. It was hell trying to get it all figured out, but as of now, I've mined, sold, and received 2.1 BTC in less than 24 hours. My single Titan was responsible for 1.5 BTC as it found 2 blocks by itself, and I was 5 hours later to the CudaMiner game so others really made out well who got in early there. And my AMD cards didn't get up and running until around noon.
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Same. It's crazy, MaxCoin has brought in more profits than an entire year of mining on 2x7970 in one day for me. I jumped on it at release with 2x780 and 5x770, sold during the price spike to 0.02-0.03 and made 16 BTC total.

I guess it made up for all the years Nvidia GPUs weren't good at mining lol.
 
I hate you guys :(

Just curious, how did you figure out all the wallet crap? Did you use Linux?
 
Couple questions for you guys.

1. I'm having a hell of a time trying to undervolt my cards. I read somewhere that when you change the setting in cgminer, it says it changed and the voltage still shows the same even though it actually changes. But gpuz doesn't show the change. I also tried Msi afterburner, but the dials for voltage are grayed out, even though I have the check mark next to the allow voltage change or whatever it is. All 3 of the cards are running a custom bios from the stilt. Does that lock my voltage?

2. What do you guys use to remotely monitor your miners? I'm using cgwatcher to keep everything alive, but I'd like to be able to unplug that monitor and just check somewhere to make sure hash rates are correct.

Thanks!
 
If MSI afterburner grayed them out, the voltages are most likely locked(could be a hardware lock). Are they Gigabytes? Sapphire 270X's?
 
The primary role of a currency is to be *USED* for exchange. If there is a constant deflation where something becomes more and more valuable over time then where is your incentive to ever exchange it? If I knew that a US dollar today would buy me 30% more next year, I'd do everything I could to avoid spending it. Thus, it would fail as a currency. This is the inherent weakness designed into BTC, LTC, etc. They are "currencies" that entice you to hoard them.

It's this reason that I'm sticking with Dogecoin. Permanent Inflation was the best thing that could happen to Dogecoin, it's one of the things that makes it unique, despite being a LTC clone.

Dogecoin will be used as a currency, not an asset like all the other coins.

By this time next year I'll know if I made the right choice... or not.. time will tell.
 
xIronCrossx said:
Honestly, today I just want BTC. Don't ask me why, but I have days where I just want to have it all in BTC and ready to sell on coinbase if I need to. I have costs covered this month if I were to sell now, but I may mine a bit of WDC again. I only had around 144, so not really that much.
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Just read a bunch of stuff on WDC... ya, it's looking pretty grim... the community is dropping their support because of lack of word from above (the Worldcoin Foundation) and the word from above, even when issued, doesn't give much info and doesn't add much to lend hope to the situation. So, I'm not gonna worry about WDC for now.

In fact, I'd rather throw a miner onto Lotto coin... it's got a block reward halving coming up in 33 days. I don't expect it to go to the moon or anything... actually I just expect it to gain a couple Satoshis, but since you can mine like a million of these things in a couple days with just a couple MH/s, a couple of Satoshis might be significant.
 
Yay, I have maxcoins now. Mind em with my 7950.

Good thing they're not really worth mining now. Difficulty is skyrocketing - It's almost over 9000!!! And their value is rapidly dropping. Down to about 0.005 or less per coin now. I think I'll stick with SmartCoin, Coino and KlondikeCoin for now.
 
SunnyD said:
Yay, I have maxcoins now. Mind em with my 7950.

Good thing they're not really worth mining now. Difficulty is skyrocketing - It's almost over 9000!!! And their value is rapidly dropping. Down to about 0.005 or less per coin now. I think I'll stick with SmartCoin, Coino and KlondikeCoin for now.
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Yeah, those 3 really seem to be going places. That said, I think I'm gonna stick to Wafflepool for now. I'm gonna wait for a new coin that looks interesting and just stick with the relatively stable profits for now.

One thing about Coino, the transaction fee is 6. That's the highest I have seen of any coin.
 
The proof of concept they've done with Maxcoin is promising though. The implementation of a new SHA-3 algorithm, and something that breathes new life into NVidia GPUs for mining. Things could get good in the next few months.
 
xIronCrossx said:
Yeah, those 3 really seem to be going places. That said, I think I'm gonna stick to Wafflepool for now. I'm gonna wait for a new coin that looks interesting and just stick with the relatively stable profits for now.

One thing about Coino, the transaction fee is 6. That's the highest I have seen of any coin.
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What are your results like for Wafflepool? Promising?
 
Carbon_Rod said:
What are your results like for Wafflepool? Promising?
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Honestly, I haven't consistently kept track, but I have like .031 overall and I maybe mined 2-2.5 days. It's probably not the greatest, but I'll mine for a week and let you know how it averages out.
 
MaxCoin is still very profitable, I think with 2x7970 you should be able to get close to 100 coins a day. About 0.36 BTC at the moment. Could change quickly though, as the difficulty retargets after every block.

I noticed mining SHA-3 seems to heat up my GPU less than scrypt. I'm going to keep my rigs on Max for now.
 
x3sphere said:
MaxCoin is still very profitable, I think with 2x7970 you should be able to get close to 100 coins a day. About 0.36 BTC at the moment. Could change quickly though, as the difficulty retargets after every block.

I noticed mining SHA-3 seems to heat up my GPU less than scrypt. I'm going to keep my rigs on Max for now.
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How do you mine it with GPU's?(AMD)
 
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